Bookgeeks: MOZART’S LAST ARIA and writing music in a novel
I’ve a guest post on the UK book blog Bookgeeks today, about how I “wrote the music” for my new Mozart novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA. Here’s how the post starts: I’ve played music all my life, but I’m no...
View ArticleUK fiction blog guest post on Mozart’s intellectual life
The excellent UK fiction blog Floor to Ceiling Books (you can find film and television reviews there too) has a guest post from me about how my portrayal of Mozart stacks up against the popular image...
View ArticleUsing real locations in historical fiction
London classical music guru Mark Berry has a guest post from me on his excellent Boulezian blog. I write about how my task as a historical novelist was aided by the period locations still surviving in...
View ArticleWin a copy of MOZART’S LAST ARIA
The Mystery Fanfare blog, written by the active and multifaceted doyenne of American detective fiction Janet Rudolph, features a chat with me about my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA, which is out this...
View ArticleInvited to Speculate about Julia Roberts
Marshal Zeringue’s Campaign for the American reader continues with an invitation for me to speculate about which actress ought to play the lead in a movie version of my new historical crime novel...
View ArticleThe Other Mozart, No Longer Forgotten
On the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy arts blog, I’ve written a piece about why artistic attention is finally being paid to Nannerl Mozart, sister of the great composer and an important musical figure...
View ArticleReading Olen Steinhauer, Barry Unsworth; interview with a Dark Mind
My pal detective novelist B.R. Stateham features an interview with me on his blog In the Dark Mind of B.R. Stateham. He asked some very interesting questions about how a writer does what he does. I...
View ArticleMozart’s brains and Caravaggio’s balls
I’ve a guest post on the Fresh Fiction blog and also there’s an interview with me on the CBS columnist Jeff Glor’s blog about my new novel Mozart’s Last Aria. Read the Fresh Fiction post to find out...
View Article